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Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Authority determines mortality: More corona deaths (Spiegel Online) 

July 27, 2020


Spiegel Online (Germany) published an article on mortality trends due to COVID-19. According to an IFPRI study, that appears in the Lancet, Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality, due to the devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, almost 180,000 children under the age of five are also at starvation this year. Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey and colleagues analyzed various scenarios and assume that 111,000 additional deaths in children under the age of five are at best, and 178,000 in the worst case. Before the Corona crisis, it was estimated that 47 million children under the age of five were medium to severely malnourished. Republished in Focus OnlineT-OnlineWestfalen PostAriviaMarket Screener.comMax Blue, Teletrader.com, Boerse.comFinanzenWall Street OnlineFinanztreffTelebasel (Germany), Telebasel (Switzerland), Russia Today (Germany/Russia), Russian Today (Russia), and many other mentions from major global outlets. 

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